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The New HIV Statistics Are Frightening: Could This AIDS-Prevention Gel Help?

Did you hear the news out this week that 3 in every 100 people over the age of 12 in Washington D.C. are infected with HIV--that's 1 in every 33 people (that's as big of an infection rate as some African nations). I found this statistic very sad, and frightening. While there's no cure in sight, researchers believe that a new "gel" might help stop the spread...

**** Researchers at the University of Minnesota have created a "sexual gel" that they believe could help reduce the spread of AIDS, reports the New York Daily News by " stopping cells vulnerable to the virus from rushing to the site of infection."

The study found that four out of five monkeys, which were used for the study, were protected from contracting the animal version of HIV when lubed up with the gel (gross image, I know).

While an AIDS-fighting gel for humans might be a long way off (and it most certainly won't be 100-percent effective), researchers are hopeful that one could be in the works.